Radical 185
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|185|uni=9996
|meaning= head
|pny= shǒu
|bopo= ㄕㄡˇ
|wade= shou3
|jyutping= sau2
|yale= sau2
|cn=
|onyomi= シュ shu / シュウ shū
|kunyomi= くび kubi
|jp= 首/くび kubi
|hang= 머리 meori
|hanja= 수 su
|hanviet= thủ, thú
}}
Radical 185 or radical head ({{Lang|zh-Hant|首部}}) meaning "head" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|首}} is also the 187th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:首-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:首-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:首-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:首-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
| class="wikitable"
! Strokes !! Characters | |
| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|首}} |
| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馗}} |
| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馘}} |
{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/首}}
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}} It is a second grade kanji.
References
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Literature
- {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
- {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}
External links
{{Commons category|Radical 185}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=9996 Unihan Database - U+9996]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}